Heartless quotes
74 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless, robots who protect them and their property."
"I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure."
"I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war."
"To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy."
"The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless."
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"Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone."
"The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal."
"By headless Charles see heartless Henry lies."
"I don't like fashion. It's very heartless."
"On the silver screen, capitalists are usually vilified as greedy and heartless, while statists of every stripe are depicted as selfless, romantic idealists who only want to help people."
"He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other."
"No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism, to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality."
"How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless." "Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them." "I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances."
"I am 'too fiery'... yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything."
"Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless."
"Never slam a car door. According to the Westchester elite, it's a heinous crime, as heartless as kicking a puppy."
"You have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, you ape – the great face pressed even closer, so that Wonse was staring into the pitiless depths of his eyes – we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality."
"Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity."
"A fashionable wife! Oh! Never will I be anything so heartless! I have pictured for myself a far higher destiny than this. - Will it ever be more than a picture?"
